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    Gorillas in the midst: assessing the peace and conflict impacts of international gorilla conservation programme (IGCP) activities

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2008
    Conservation work in conflict zones and across international borders has impacts on more than just wildlife populations and their habitats. It can also have a profound effect on the peace and conflict dynamics in a region.
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    The Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN)

    The Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Transnational Institute, works in partnership with citizens groups at a national and global level on e
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    Institute for Environmental Security (IES)

    The Institute for Environmental Security (IES) is an international non-profit non-governmental organisation established in 2002 in The Hague, with representatives in Brussels, London, California, New
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    Seeing people through the trees: scaling up efforts to advance rights and address poverty, conflict and climate change

    The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2008
    The report discusses how tensions over forests in coming decades will influence the severity of climate change, the course of wars and civil conflicts, and the health of the world. It is asserted that few development interventions in forest areas have worked in favour of either the forest dwellers or the forests and that a new approach and urgent action is needed.
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    Al Hima: a way of life

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2007
    The Hima is a traditional system of resource tenure that has been practiced for more than 1400 years in the Arabian Peninsular. With the numerous deteriorations that came and halted advancement in the Arab world, and at times for different reasons, the Hima also declined.
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    Protection, politics and protest: understanding resistance to conservation

    Conservation and Society, 2007
    This paper presents a framework to understand how conservation is resisted, particularly in protected areas and national parks. Informed largely by James Scott’s concept of ‘everyday resistance’, the paper is based on theories of subaltern politics and a review of thirty-four published case studies.
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    Local governance institutions for sustainable natural resource management in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2008
    This paper reflects on experiences from research and interventions in the Sahel on management of renewable natural resources - soils, water, forests, and biodiversity - for the purpose of food and income generation. It focuses on local governance institutions in relation to natural resource entitlements, use and decision-making on management in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.
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    Conservation and human rights

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2007
    This paper presents a collection of articles exploring the key issues surrounding the relationship between human rights and conservation. It looks at what human rights are and what do they have to do with conservation.
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    Gender, Environment, Conflict - Special Issue Newsletter, Civilian Crisis Prevention - Environment and Natural Resources 2008

    Environment Conflict and Cooperation, 2007
    The linkages between gender, environment and conflict have so far not been studied in detail. Environmental changes and conflicts impact men and women differently because of their gender roles and socio-cultural situation. More often than not, environmental degradation and the consequences of climate change or natural disasters reinforce existing gender inequalities.
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    Negotiation and mediation techniques for natural resource management: case studies and lessons learned

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
    This publication is part of a series of training materials on natural resource conflict management developed by FAO’s Livelihood Support Programme. It seeks to support sustainable livelihoods in Africa and elsewhere by sharing recent real-life experiences of Africans who have used the processes and principles of consensual negotiation to address natural resource conflicts.

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